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  • Conversation Club at the Stanley-Whitman House

    Rediscovering Hidden Narratives: Embracing Inclusive Storytelling with Pat Wilson Pheanious Join us for an enlightening evening at Stanley-Whitman House on Thursday, June 13, 2024, at 7:00 p.m., as we welcome special guest Pat Wilson Pheanious. Together, we'll embark on a journey of exploration into forgotten narratives and celebrate the importance of inclusive storytelling. Just as […]

  • 2024 Land Acknowledgement

    Kingston Congregational Church 2610 Kingston Road, South Kingston, RI

    As an extension of our work last year on the Witness Stones project, owning our church's history with slavery in colonial days, a task force has been working on creating a "land acknowledgement statement" to expand our understanding of how the church came to own our property, which was once the ancestral homeland of the […]

  • Art of the Witness Stones Project

    Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ

    Eighth grade students from Timberlane Middle School worked with the Witness Stones Project and the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum to memorialize three enslaved people from Central New Jersey: Friday Truehart, Frost Blackwell and a woman named Nance. This exhibition of student artwork reflects on these individuals’ lives, history and humanity. Sponsored by the Stoutsburg […]

  • Anthony & Susanna Witness Stone Ceremony hosted by Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center and Historic Huguenot Street

    Historic Huguenot Street 5 Broadhead Avenue, New Paltz, NY

    The Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center and Historic Huguenot Street will honor and remember the lives of Anthony and Susanna, enslaved in Ulster County during the seventeenth century. Anthony and Susanna were purchased by Louis DuBois, a French Protestant founder of New Paltz, in 1673. Their purchase is the earliest record of enslavement associated with a […]

  • Engaging with the Legacies of Northern Slavery

    Historic Deerfield 128 Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA

    A one-day conference to explore the historical and ongoing legacies of slavery in Northern communities, focusing on the completion of the Witness Stones memorials in Deerfield and featuring presentations on research, interpretation, and activism related to this history. This is a hybrid program that will take place both in person and virtually via Zoom; registrants […]

  • Witness Stone Ceremony to Honor Cuff

    Henry Whitfield State Museum 248 Old Whitfield Street, Guilford, CT

    Cuff was enslaved at the Whitfield House from 1772 to 1775 by Joseph and Sarah (Ruggles) Pynchon. He was a gardener, a teamster, and he may have served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Cuff was researched and remembered this year by students at Elizabeth C. Adams Middle School in Guilford through a […]

  • Installation Ceremony

    Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library 2 Library Lane, Old Lyme, CT

    Featuring Kate Rushin, Poet in Residence and Professor of English, Connecticut College, along with poetry from Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School students, music and reflections from community leaders.

  • New Paltz Juneteenth

    Historic Huguenot Street 5 Broadhead Avenue, New Paltz, NY

    Get ready to celebrate Juneteenth in New Paltz, NY! It's almost time for the 5th Annual MWLC Juneteenth Jubilee! A celebration of triumph and history and learning about Juneteenth with the New Paltz community. This is the 5th year in a row we will host an all-day extravaganza to help honor and remember the formerly […]

    Free

  • Juneteenth Celebration

    Florence Griswold Museum 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT

    Live jazz by the Avery Sharpe Quartet and readings by acclaimed poets Kate Rushin, Marilyn Nelson, Rhonda Ward, and Antoinette Brim-Bell.

    Free